How I Met Your Mother S09E12 – The Rehearsal Dinner
Barney becomes fixated on having his rehearsal dinner at a laser tag
arena, much to Robin’s dismay. Meanwhile, Ted doesn’t come through on a
promise, which aggravates Lily..jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/220?cb=20131204105707)
On Saturday at 8:00 PM, 22 hours before the wedding, Barney is handcuffed to a pipe in a security office begging a guard to push a button on a novelty toy. Robin orders the guard not to, furious as the rehearsal dinner started ten minutes earlier and she is now in a laser tag security office waiting for the police to arrive. They then tell the story of how they ended up there:
A few months earlier, Barney hit upon the idea of a rehearsal dinner at a laser tag arena. The gang hates the idea and Robin reminds him that their marriage will be about compromise such as when she agreed to hold the wedding in New York rather than Canada like she wanted to when they first got engaged (which prompted more than a few Canada-based jokes from the others). Barney agrees they'll have a normal rehearsal dinner, but its obvious he isn't going to drop the idea. Ted, the self-declared 'Wedding Gift Master', then tells Robin and Barney that as a gift he's willing to take up piano lessons again and play at the dinner. Both Barney and Robin refuse until Ted offers to dress like Liberace while doing it.
A few days after Robin surprised Barney with his bachelor party, he tearfully declares that the wedding is off and asks her to move out of his apartment. Robin, convinced by Barney's tearful performance, is shocked and ready to pack only to see her suitcase with puppies inside, prompting her to force Barney to stop pulling pranks. Later at the bar, the gang try to convince Barney that Robin has a point, only for Barney to adamantly insist that Robin is trying to pull off a surprise laser tag rehearsal dinner by claiming that the rehearsal dinner at the Farhampton Inn was a fake.
Meanwhile, Lily is distraught that she is not in the loop about the details of the rehearsal dinner because of her inability to keep secrets. She reminds Ted of having been able to keep his whole plan to move to Chicago and not being dressed like Liberace secret. Ted admits that the lessons didn't go well (as shown in flashback, he never got around to pressing a single key), as Barney returns telling them he has the plan worked out; Robin will send him to collect ice and the only store he can get it will be right next to a laser tag arena where the surprise will be sprung. Robin enters telling everyone that the ice machine has broken down and Barney plays the part of the person sent out to collect more ice. Robin however doesn't want him to leave and makes Barney promise not to. Barney promises, and immediately leaves anyway and heads straight to the laser tag arena (that, rather than being next to the ice store, was actually six miles in the opposite direction).
Still upset over everyone not confiding in her, Lily tells Ted and Robin about her plan to move to Italy being in shambles because Marshall took up a judgeship without asking her (they can't go back to the apartment because it is already sublet). Ted is angry with Marshall for his selfishness, but Lily knows that her husband would never intentionally hurt her. Suddenly Robin arrives back with the news that Barney went to the laser tag arena and was so angry when he found that there was indeed no surprise rehearsal dinner he threatened one of the staff and is now being held there awaiting arrest. As Robin leaves to pick up Barney, Ted comforts Lily by telling her he knows she can keep a secret and offers to tell her one. He whispers it in her ear, and allows her to announce to the guests that there's going to be a slight change of plan.
Back in the present, Barney is still convinced this is one massive surprise and wants to just head to the laser tag rehearsal dinner despite Robin insisting there isn't one. He agrees with her that marriage isn't just about playing pranks just as Robin notices that Barney has freed himself from the handcuffs before he hands her a pair of ice skates. Barney then admits that he may lie in the future "only if it means an amazing surprise"; then snow begins to fall in the office. Before Robin can ask Barney any more questions, he presses the button on the novelty toy, causing the office's walls to suddenly lift up, revealing that the "office" is in the middle of an ice rink surrounded by their family and friends (including Ted in his Liberace costume). Barney tells a surprised Robin that since they couldn't have the wedding in Canada, he decided to organize a Canadian-themed rehearsal dinner just for her and he gives her a signed picture of Wayne Gretzky as his own personal wedding gift to her. The security guard turns out to be a figure skater.
As Alan Thicke and James sing, Lily thanks Ted for letting her in late on the secret; Ted admits that the piano lessons were a cover for taking figure skating lessons, only to fall over almost immediately (Future Ted notes that it takes a lot longer than two months to learn how to figure skate). Robin tells Barney how much she loves him, and promises to get him back for this and Barney tells her to "bring it"; right before they kiss. While Ted limps back over to the center of the ice rink.
In the final scene, Barney admits that he loves Canada as he lists several amazing things the country has given the world including one-quarter of himself and best of all Robin. She thanks him and the two of them skate off happy together to have a good time at their rehearsal dinner as Ted goes by playing the piano as promised.
A few months earlier, Barney hit upon the idea of a rehearsal dinner at a laser tag arena. The gang hates the idea and Robin reminds him that their marriage will be about compromise such as when she agreed to hold the wedding in New York rather than Canada like she wanted to when they first got engaged (which prompted more than a few Canada-based jokes from the others). Barney agrees they'll have a normal rehearsal dinner, but its obvious he isn't going to drop the idea. Ted, the self-declared 'Wedding Gift Master', then tells Robin and Barney that as a gift he's willing to take up piano lessons again and play at the dinner. Both Barney and Robin refuse until Ted offers to dress like Liberace while doing it.
A few days after Robin surprised Barney with his bachelor party, he tearfully declares that the wedding is off and asks her to move out of his apartment. Robin, convinced by Barney's tearful performance, is shocked and ready to pack only to see her suitcase with puppies inside, prompting her to force Barney to stop pulling pranks. Later at the bar, the gang try to convince Barney that Robin has a point, only for Barney to adamantly insist that Robin is trying to pull off a surprise laser tag rehearsal dinner by claiming that the rehearsal dinner at the Farhampton Inn was a fake.
Meanwhile, Lily is distraught that she is not in the loop about the details of the rehearsal dinner because of her inability to keep secrets. She reminds Ted of having been able to keep his whole plan to move to Chicago and not being dressed like Liberace secret. Ted admits that the lessons didn't go well (as shown in flashback, he never got around to pressing a single key), as Barney returns telling them he has the plan worked out; Robin will send him to collect ice and the only store he can get it will be right next to a laser tag arena where the surprise will be sprung. Robin enters telling everyone that the ice machine has broken down and Barney plays the part of the person sent out to collect more ice. Robin however doesn't want him to leave and makes Barney promise not to. Barney promises, and immediately leaves anyway and heads straight to the laser tag arena (that, rather than being next to the ice store, was actually six miles in the opposite direction).
Still upset over everyone not confiding in her, Lily tells Ted and Robin about her plan to move to Italy being in shambles because Marshall took up a judgeship without asking her (they can't go back to the apartment because it is already sublet). Ted is angry with Marshall for his selfishness, but Lily knows that her husband would never intentionally hurt her. Suddenly Robin arrives back with the news that Barney went to the laser tag arena and was so angry when he found that there was indeed no surprise rehearsal dinner he threatened one of the staff and is now being held there awaiting arrest. As Robin leaves to pick up Barney, Ted comforts Lily by telling her he knows she can keep a secret and offers to tell her one. He whispers it in her ear, and allows her to announce to the guests that there's going to be a slight change of plan.
Back in the present, Barney is still convinced this is one massive surprise and wants to just head to the laser tag rehearsal dinner despite Robin insisting there isn't one. He agrees with her that marriage isn't just about playing pranks just as Robin notices that Barney has freed himself from the handcuffs before he hands her a pair of ice skates. Barney then admits that he may lie in the future "only if it means an amazing surprise"; then snow begins to fall in the office. Before Robin can ask Barney any more questions, he presses the button on the novelty toy, causing the office's walls to suddenly lift up, revealing that the "office" is in the middle of an ice rink surrounded by their family and friends (including Ted in his Liberace costume). Barney tells a surprised Robin that since they couldn't have the wedding in Canada, he decided to organize a Canadian-themed rehearsal dinner just for her and he gives her a signed picture of Wayne Gretzky as his own personal wedding gift to her. The security guard turns out to be a figure skater.
As Alan Thicke and James sing, Lily thanks Ted for letting her in late on the secret; Ted admits that the piano lessons were a cover for taking figure skating lessons, only to fall over almost immediately (Future Ted notes that it takes a lot longer than two months to learn how to figure skate). Robin tells Barney how much she loves him, and promises to get him back for this and Barney tells her to "bring it"; right before they kiss. While Ted limps back over to the center of the ice rink.
In the final scene, Barney admits that he loves Canada as he lists several amazing things the country has given the world including one-quarter of himself and best of all Robin. She thanks him and the two of them skate off happy together to have a good time at their rehearsal dinner as Ted goes by playing the piano as promised.
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